Diana Arón


Diana Frida Arón Svigilisky was a Chilean journalist and a member of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria party. She was kidnapped, tortured and forcibly disappeared by agents of the Pinochet dictatorship.

Biography

She studied at the Hebrew Institute and then journalism at the Catholic University, developed her professional practice on Canal 13, belonging to the same university. After graduating, she worked as a reporter for Onda magazine of Editorial Quimantú. Arón was a member of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria and as such she was part of the editorial team of El Rebelde newspaper.

Disappearance

After the 1973 military coup, Arón was forced to go underground. On November 18, 1974, she was arrested by agents of the DINA and taken to Villa Grimaldi, where she was tortured by Miguel Krassnoff. After that she was forcibly disappeared and her body was never found.